Western Project
2762 S La Cienega Blvd
310.838.0609
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Arne Svenson at Western Project
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May 22, 2010 – June 26, 2010
Tuesdays–Fridays (10am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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“Arne Svenson's latest exhibition draws on his own extensive personal archives of torn-out pages, photographs, scraps, and other sundry paper-best memorabiliac ephemera. His reassembly, or more precisely, reorganization of this compendium of found and acquired materials into book form creates individual prints, hefty tomes, and an installation environment that questions authorship and originality in the face of technology, even as it uses these same reproduction techniques to underscore and celebrate the (slightly hysterical) visual kaleidoscope of modern living.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
Western Project says:
Western Project is proud to present The Library, a body of new work by New York artist/photographer, Arne Svenson. For his seventh solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Svenson will present books and prints scanned from his idiosyncratic collections of newspaper clippings, magazine photos, paper towels, found diaries and books from his youth. The function of The Library is to create unexpected connections and narratives. The artist writes: "Using disparate images taken from appropriated institutional, educational and non-fiction printed material, the pages of the 6 books in the exhibition suggest tales to be told, stories within stories. The narrative may be literal, as in the (self) reportage of Diane's Diary, or, in the case of Heroes, created by random juxtaposition and pagination decisions. In the Real Estate Ladies, the story could the subtext behind the 400 smiling faces of eager Agents. The stories are up to the viewer to create - I have provided the raw material, with a prompt here and there, but the rest is up to the reader of these books."
